This is so sick. Small town Georgia has decided that blacks and whites can go to the same prom!
Ending segregation in 2007! Gee, what will the red state of Georgia think of next?
No wonder Genarlow Wilson is serving ten years for consensual sex in Georgia.
ASHBURN, Ga. -- For the first time, the faces of students at the Turner County High School prom were both white and black. Each year, in spite of integration, the school's white students had raised money for their own unofficial prom and black students did the same to throw their own separate party, an annual ritual that divided the southern Georgia peanut-farming county anew each spring. . .
"I couldn't be more proud of these young people," said Ray Jordan, the county's school superintendent. "The changes needed to come from the student body."
The changes needed to come from the student body??? Why? Because the adults in Ashburn, Georgia have a thing for Jim Crow traditions?
Apparently, kids trained in Jim Crow tradtions may have trouble changing:
Still, traditions die hard. Only about two-thirds of the school's 160 upper-class students purchased tickets for the prom, blacks still easily outnumbered whites at the dance, and many whites still attended their own private party a week earlier. Few other white students would comment about the dance, telling reporters gathered outside the gym that school officials told them not to talk to the media.
Why do we even let Georgia be in the United States?
Georgia Racism Politics Integration Red State Race News Jim Crow 2007 Ashburn Genarlow Wilson
